WIAW: Backyard Camping Edition

It's Wednesday.

What I Ate Wednesday Time.

This week is the backyard camping edition. 

We love camping.

However...

we haven't had a single weekend this summer 

when we've been able to get to our favorite campsite.

One recent Friday evening we decided we did have the time 

to camp for just one evening

in our backyard.

We decided to set our tent up 

and pretend we were in the wilderness 

even though 

we were actually 

just a few feet from our cozy beds.

Well...

pretending we were in the wilderness 

somehow turned into pretending we were survivors of a plane crash 

and we landed on a deserted island somewhere .

{I know. Original, right?}

Ryan and Isabel pretended to be a father-daughter pair of world travelers.
They had just been to Brazil to master a renowned form of jiu-jitsu
and had been on the flight from

 Brazil to Paris
to freshen up their French.

{Or so they told us.  Little did we know that they were secretly SPIES!}

Natalie and I were the princess and queen 

of 

Islandia

{and again with the creativity}

a small island nation off the coast of Brazil. 

We had been on the plane 

traveling to Paris in order to find a new baby brother to adopt for 

Princess Natalia.

She was quite lonely as an only child and the queen

{yep that's me}

had been a widow for several years.

 

 

And James....

well he's just a boy we found on the island.

James had lived on the island since birth and was really more like a 

savage 

than anything else.

James knew the island 

like the back of his hand-

but he had very little social skills and knew nothing of his mother or father.

He could speak no recognizable language.

It appeared that he was fluent

-however-

in the language of

"wild boar"

{Poor boy.}

He did come in very handy when it was time to look for firewood.

He also showed us how to find native produce.

{and yes...some of that local produce was Twizzlers, Jalapeno Kettle Chips & SunChips.  

Don't judge our imaginations.}

Princess Natalia was also quite fond of the largest of local crops

on this deserted island.

Marshmallows.

That's right....fields and fields of fluffy marshmallows.

{don't ruin our dreams}

The island had plenty of timber and kindling 

so as a team we were able to start a life-saving fire.

 {Please ignore that there is a camper in the yard several feet away from us.  

Our deserted island line was clearly marked at the fence line.}

 

 Isabel's frequent world traveling 

certainly gave her the knack for tending fires.

{It never once crossed my mind that it could have been because she was a sneaky spy!}

Although James managed to live off the "local produce" just fine-

it appeared the crops could only provide for the five of us for a few short days.

However,

there was an abundance of wild boar.

We intensely debated whether or not 

we should eat them.

Princess Natalia was horrified at the thought!

{Of course our UNO cards survived the wreck!}

Ryan thought the mere suggestion was ludicrous.

Isabel didn't see what the big deal was...

But the queen was hungry so she got her way.

{Ugghh..how rude. Right? Those boars were all the family that poor James had!}

{Oh come on. Did you really think the Queen would travel in her best clothes??

She obviously was going icognito!! The paparazzi is all over royalty!}

We spent the night talking and getting to know one another.

Eventually...

the spies

couldn't hold in their secret 

any 

longer.

They informed us that they were actually on a mission 

regarding

our royal family secrets.

It turns out that although I had been told that my young infant 

son had died in childbirth-

leaders of neighboring island nation

[our enemies]

had placed an insider doctor who had agreed to steal my son.

When the enemies brought my son to their island he cried so much for his mommy

that they decided to take him to a deserted island and leave him for dead.

Instead-

he was a strong and brave little man

that survived.

And now Princess Natalia had the brother she had always dreamed of.

Of course,

there was a sneaky reason Isabel

decided to tell us the truth.

Want to know what it is?

 {Come on....of course you do.}

You see,
Isabel and Ryan were sick of
traveling the world as spies.
Instead they wanted to be a part of a family.

Ours.

So did we accept those sneaky turds into our newly formed family?
Did we ever get off the deserted island?

To be continued...